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http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/woolly-mammoth-extinction-has-234898.aspx[font face=Serif][font size=5]Woolly mammoth extinction has lessons for modern climate change[/font]
By Alison Hewitt | June 12, 2012
[font size=3]Although humans and woolly mammoths co-existed for millennia, the shaggy giants disappeared from the globe between 4,000 and 10,000 years ago, and scientists couldn't explain until recently exactly how the Flinstonian behemoths went extinct.
In a paper published June 12 in the journal Nature Communications, UCLA researchers and colleagues reveal that not long after the last ice age, the last woolly mammoths succumbed to a lethal combination of climate warming, encroaching humans and habitat change the same threats facing many species today.
"We were interested to know what happened to this species during the climate warming at the end of the last ice age because we were looking for insights into what might happen today due to human-induced climate change," said Glen MacDonald, director of UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES). "The answer to why woolly mammoths died off sounds a lot like what we expect with future climate warming."
MacDonald, a professor of geography and of ecology and evolutionary biology, worked with UCLA IoES scientists Robert Wayne and Blaire Van Valkenburgh, UCLA geographer Konstantine Kremenetski, and researchers from UC Santa Cruz, the Russian Academy of Science and the University of Hawaii Manoa.
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By Alison Hewitt | June 12, 2012
[font size=3]Although humans and woolly mammoths co-existed for millennia, the shaggy giants disappeared from the globe between 4,000 and 10,000 years ago, and scientists couldn't explain until recently exactly how the Flinstonian behemoths went extinct.
In a paper published June 12 in the journal Nature Communications, UCLA researchers and colleagues reveal that not long after the last ice age, the last woolly mammoths succumbed to a lethal combination of climate warming, encroaching humans and habitat change the same threats facing many species today.
"We were interested to know what happened to this species during the climate warming at the end of the last ice age because we were looking for insights into what might happen today due to human-induced climate change," said Glen MacDonald, director of UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES). "The answer to why woolly mammoths died off sounds a lot like what we expect with future climate warming."
MacDonald, a professor of geography and of ecology and evolutionary biology, worked with UCLA IoES scientists Robert Wayne and Blaire Van Valkenburgh, UCLA geographer Konstantine Kremenetski, and researchers from UC Santa Cruz, the Russian Academy of Science and the University of Hawaii Manoa.
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Woolly mammoth extinction has lessons for modern climate change (Original Post)
OKIsItJustMe
Jun 2012
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Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)1. one of the grad students I follow on twitter studies mammoth poop
it's been extremely educational.
she did an interview on Science..sort of several months back that was great.
http://www.sciencesortof.com/2011/10/episode-106-a-big-pile-of-science/
longship
(40,416 posts)2. I thought it was Clovis point weaponry??
Just kidding
R&K
soc7
(53 posts)3. Man! Were there a bunch of SUV's driving around back then too?!
n/t
OKIsItJustMe
(19,938 posts)4. Is this a serious post?
Or are you trying to be funny?